Global Climate Change

Nowadays, the impact of global climate change can be observed. Humans and wildlife are suffering the consequences of global warming. However, Trump’s administration does not believe in climate change and ignore what the scientists say. In my opinion, we should fight the global climate change because it will affect our future if it continues to happen.

President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement in June 2017. According to the article from The Washington Post, President Trump believes that the Paris climate accord is a burden to the United States’ economy. He insisted that the number of jobs in the United States would increase after withdrawing from the agreement. Moreover, though the article from CNN, President Trump said that the United States is “the cleanest we have never been.” Trump does not believe the climate change that happens around the world and America. Trump tries to grow our economy which will benefit our country. However, he ignores global warming which is affecting our future.

I could not agree with him. We should fight global climate change. Climate change affects directly to human life and wildlife. There are a lot of data to prove that climate change is actually happening around us. The report from the World Meteorological Organization points out that the temperature, greenhouse gases, sea level, and sea ice melting have increased and likely to be higher in 2019 than 2018. Moreover, global warming can make some regions are hotter and dryer which can lead to drought and wildfires. In the United States and around the world, in the past years, there are floods, hurricanes, wildfires that linked to climate change. The report clarifies the influences of climate change through extreme weathers such as hurricane Florence, and Michael has damaged the economy and lives of many people in the United States. The transportation through the Rhine river has been disrupted in mid-October because of record low flows. Recently, the Camp Fire in California in November 2018 was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in over a century in the United States. We cannot say that those happening extreme weathers are coincidences. The climate system may change naturally by itself. However, it is also affected by human activities such as fossil fuel combustion, deforestation, land use, decomposition of wastes, etc. The climate change not only affects our lives right now, but it also leaves the consequences to our future and next generations.

In short, we should fight global climate change to save our planet together with other countries. We cannot grow the economy and ignore the safety for our future. The United States is one of the developed countries in the world, so we should take actions against climate change to slow it down and prevent severe changes to our planet.